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The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...management often begins only after populations are widespread and expensive – or impossible – to eradicate. As a result, early detection, including using environmental DNA and metagenomics, can be a very cost‑effective strategy for invasive species management. Figure 9 (interactive) Invasive species of major global importance. The advantage of using eDNA for...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. ...Week 1: What is law?: Introduction - During this week you consider and explore what law is. Law plays a central role in society and is influenced by social, political and economic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...manage those risks we're going to live a good life and a good healthy life. Well, I understand the genetics and lifestyle part. And you know why I understand that? Because my physicians constantly ask me questions about this. Have you ever had to fill out those long, legal-size forms in your doctor's office? I mean, if you're lucky enough you get to do it more than once,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...projects the image of the trooper’s violence against the girl on the door of the room in which Isa sits and reads. The intrusion of such a shocking event into that domestic space can be seen as a metaphor for the effect of war on everyday lives. If you were to read the whole book, you would see that Isa’s reading colours the rest of the day for her with an image of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...manage crowds, and hold press conferences when defendants are convicted and sentenced. It seems obvious that ‘the police enforce the law’, but is it true? [Described image] Figure 11 Police officers at a protest Activity 6 Police enforce the law Timing: Allow 2 minutes Select the answer for Question 1a here How many territorial police forces are there in England and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...manager), Thomas (an export manager for a steel company) and Benoît (a management consultant) also talked to us. [Figure 11] Benoît et Thomas chez eux et Philippe et Médina, le jour de leur mariage Activité 12 PARTIR OU PAS? 07:21–11:15 1 Regardez la séquence vidéo une première fois. Quelles sont les personnes qui mentionnent leurs voyages à l'étranger? Pour...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...manage to settle on one meaning of the term there are still radically divergent opinions about the nature of consciousness, given the univocal meaning in question. If a being is conscious, in one common sense of the term ‘conscious’, then it must be having some kind of (sensory or cognitive) experience with a distinctive phenomenology. To be a conscious being is...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Deall datganoli yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Deall datganoli yng Nghymru

...project onwards and upwards. We intend to incorporate the major executive quangos directly under the Assembly Government. (WalesOnline, 2004) Fel rhan o’r newid hwn, gwelwyd swyddogaethau a staff nifer o gyrff gwasanaethau cyhoeddus – gan gynnwys Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru, Bwrdd Croeso Cymru a’r awdurdod cwricwlwm a chymwysterau – yn dod yn rhan o Lywodraeth...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs